Released June 29, 2004 Length 59:28 Artist Lloyd Banks Label G-Unit Records | Recorded 2002-2004 The Hunger For More
(2004) Rotten Apple
(2006) Release date 29 June 2004 | |
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Genres Hip hop music, Gangsta rap, East Coast hip hop, Hardcore hip hop Producers 50 Cent, Sha Money XL, Eminem, Havoc, Ron Browz, Hi-Tek, Timbaland, Danja, Scram Jones Similar Rotten Apple, The Cold Corner 2, Beg for Mercy, Straight Outta Cashville, Thoughts of a Predicate | ||
Lloyd banks ain t no click feat tony yayo
The Hunger for More is the debut album by G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks, released June 29, 2004 on G-Unit Records and Interscope Records. Banks had been featured on 50 Cent's 6 x Platinum-RIAA certified 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin', and on G-Unit's Beg for Mercy in November of the same year. And he had recently been named Mixtape Artist of the Year at the Mixtape Awards—for his appearances on G-Unit mixtapes as well as his own Money in the Bank series—when The Hunger for More was released by G-Unit Records and Interscope Records.
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Background
The hit singles from this album include "On Fire", "I'm So Fly", and "Karma". Features on this album include 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Young Buck, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, and The Game.
During the first week of The Hunger For More's release, a distribution house in Manhattan was robbed of approximately eight boxes of the CDs (200 copies). A New York record store had nearly 100 copies of the CD stolen from its racks by a single perpetrator on the album's first day in stores, though they were later recovered.
Concept
During an interview Lloyd Banks explained the reason behind naming the album. He said:
When I say The Hunger for More, it could be referring to more success. It could be more money. Or Respect. More power. More understanding. All those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
Critical response
Upon its release, The Hunger for More received positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Commercial performance
It was released in 2004 and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 The Hunger for More, opened at #1 on Billboard's albums sales chart, with week-one sales topping 433,000. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in the 2nd week, selling close to 164,000 copies in the United States. Banks had the feeling of having the album reach number 1 in the United States. "That's the kind of debut that veteran artists have," says Banks. "That showed me that following 50's moves and studying the way that he played the game had put me in an incredible position." The album has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album also achieved Platinum status in Canada
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Songs
1Ain't No Click4:25
2Playboy4:32
3Warrior2:48